On the Decline of the Genteel Virtues

From Gentility to Technocracy

Jeff Mitchell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XV, 292 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-20353-5 (ISBN)

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This innovative book proposes that what we think of as "moral conscience" is essentially the exercise of reflective judgment on the goods and ends arising in interpersonal relations, and that such judgment constitutes a form of taste. Through an historical survey Mitchell shows that the constant pendant to taste was an educational and cultural ideal, namely, that of the gentleman, whether he was an ancient Greek citizen-soldier, Roman magistrate, Confucian scholar-bureaucrat, Renaissance courtier, or Victorian grandee. Mitchell argues that it was neither an ethical doctrine nor methodology that provided the high cultures with moral and political leadership, but rather an elite social order. While the gentry in the traditional sense no longer exists, it nevertheless made significant historical contributions, and insofar as we are concerned to understand the present state of human affairs, we need to grasp the nature and import ofsaid contributions.

Jeff Mitchell is Professor of Philosophy at Arkansas Tech University, USA. The author of 'Individualism and Moral Character: Karen Horney's Depth Psychology' (2014), Mitchell's research interests lie primarily in the fields of ethics, psychoanalysis and sociology.

Chapter 1. Introduction: On the Ethos of Good Taste or Gentility.- Chapter 2. On the Origins of Aristocracy.- Chapter 3. The Ethos of Gentility in Greco-Roman Antiquity.- Chapter 4. The Ethos of Gentility in Early Confucianism.- Chapter 5. The Ethos of Gentility from the Italian Renaissance to Victorian England.- Chapter 6. American Meritocracy and the Rise of Specialized Elites.- Chapter 7. Conservatism and the Genteel Heritage.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.06.2019
Zusatzinfo	XV, 292 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	529 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	aristocracy • genteel virtues • gentry • moral conscience • Moral Philosophy • Sociology of Culture • Virtue Ethics
ISBN-10	3-030-20353-0 / 3030203530
ISBN-13	978-3-030-20353-5 / 9783030203535
Zustand	Neuware